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The best documentaries of 2020

The top 3 according to 36 votes from people: The Social Dilemma (2020) · My Octopus Teacher (2020) · Boys State (2020). (Updated Mar 25, 2022.)

From My Octopus Teacher to Collective: the 2020 documentaries that topped Moviepilot users' ratings and the Oscars (Moviepilot).

svenja_serienjunkie · · 12 items · 36 votes · 0 comments

Automatically translated (original in Deutsch). See the original

Top 12

  1. 1

    The Social Dilemma (2020)

    Former tech workers on the power of social platforms.

    ▲ 6 ▼ 0

    6
  2. 2

    My Octopus Teacher (2020)

    A diver and an octopus in South Africa; Oscar winner.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  3. 3

    Boys State (2020)

    A thousand teenage boys build a government in Texas.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 0

    4
  4. 4

    Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

    A daughter stages her father's death so as not to lose him.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  5. 5

    Picture a Scientist (2020)

    Three women researchers on their careers and the obstacles.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  6. 6

    Gunda (2020)

    A sow and her piglets, in black and white and without words.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  7. 7

    Welcome to Chechnya (2020)

    Activists help persecuted people escape Chechnya.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  8. 8

    Collective (2019)

    After a nightclub fire, a sports paper uncovers Romania's health-care scandal.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  9. 9

    The Mole Agent (2020)

    A pensioner goes undercover in a Chilean care home.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  10. 10

    Time (2020)

    A woman fights for twenty years to free her husband.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 1

    1
  11. 11

    Crip Camp (2020)

    A summer camp and the US disability rights movement.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  12. 12

    Wall of Shadows (2020)

    A Sherpa family and a forbidden mountain.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0

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